A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879. Page: 379 of 859
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LOCAL DISTURBANCES.
377
While there was general peace throughout the State,
there were some local disturbances. The Indians who had
been collected upon the reservation in Young county, proved
a source of irritation. They had stocks of horses and cattle;
and the frontier settlers had similar stocks. The Indians
were accused of committing depredations upon the property
of the whites; quarrels followed, in which a number of the
Indians were killed. The result was they had to be removed
from Texas. There was also trouble on the Rio
Grande. It was during this administration that Juan N.
Cortina commenced his depredations on that frontier. He,
on the 1st of October, took military possession of Brownsville;
but was soon driven back into Mexico.*
* The Know-Nothing party had but a brief career in Texas. It was a
secret society, and secret political societies are contrary to the genius of our
institutions. It was said to have had tests of a religious character; and that
is contrary to the American Constitution. Again, it was said to array one
race against another; and that, in Texas, which invited inhabitants of all
nationalities to become citizens, was unwise and impolitic. For the information
of those not familiar with the political controversies of our country,
it may be proper to remark, that for the admission of Missouri into the
Union, Mr. Clay introduced one of his compromise measures, which declared
that hereafter all States formed north of the line of thirty-six degrees,
thirty minutes, should exclude the institution of domestic slavery, but that
south of that degree slavery might. be adopted or excluded. The compromise
measure introduced by Mr. Clay in 1850, provided that California
should be admitted as a free State; and that the Territories of Utah and
New Mexico should be formed without any provision concerning slavery;
that the slave trade should be prohibited in the District of Columbia; and
that a fugitive slave law should be enacted, providing for the return to
their owners of slaves escaping to a free State.
What was called the Squatter Sovereignty doctrine, incorporated by Senator
Douglas into the Kansas-Nebraska bill, introduced into the United
States Senate in December, 1854, virtually repealed the Missouri Compromise.
It declared that that compromise, ' being inconsistent with the
principles of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and
Territories, as recognized. by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the
Compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void, it being the
true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any Territory
or State, nor to exclude it therefiom, but to leave the people thereof
perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own
way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States."
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Thrall, Homer S., 1819-1894. A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879., book, 1879; St. Louis, Missouri. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5828/m1/379/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .